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The speaker rejects intelligence as a magical quality and says it depends on the scope of tasks and on existing knowledge.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“that weren't possible before but the grounding thing is interesting so it's not necessarily an argument that you need to have physical instantiation you need to have consciousness but there is a spectrum of representations down this abstraction mountain and the models seem to be actually using the representations at multiple levels of resolution but it's not like intelligence is this magical quality I still think that it has you know it relates to a scope of tasks and it relates”
“relates to what you already know and I think intelligence is quite perspectival so I still think that it's going to be fractured and jagged and and you know kind of fractionated if that makes sense”22:25Report a misattribution
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